... enters a set of games in which she wanders back and forth, like a tennis ball from one side of the court to the other, between her two choices - a new life with Frank or returning to her burdensome life with her family. She stood among the swaying crowd in the station at the North Wall Through the wide doors of the sheds she ... her husband and daughter, gesticulating them", refraining from giving up, even until the last moment "she stood still for an instant like an angry stone image, and when the first notes of the song struck her ear, she caught up her daughter's cloak wrapped the cl...

• Word Count: 1686
• Approx Pages: 7

... to leave far behind, was becoming not so wholly undesirable. The reader begins to realize what makes her possibility at an alternate life so enticing. Frank, the sailor, brings something into Eveline's life that she has never experienced. She sits in an "unaccustomed part of the theatre"(116) with him, ... her father doesn't respect Frank's profession, and it is altogether a whole different lifestyle than she is used to. She has the chance to get away from the mundane and everyday ... remembered her mother's sacrifices to the family and to her husband even more specifically. Eveline, in...

• Word Count: 1281
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... religious dogma and vague limitations. This form of paralysis is evident in the story "Eveline" in which a young woman is faced with the opportunity of leaving Dublin with her lover, Frank. Eveline was mired in an unfulfilling life that left her caring for her family's house, a house shared with her father and siblings in which performed the brunt of the work ... and supported financially. Eveline realizes that leaving with Frank promises the possibility of a new life absent of the daily trials and suppressed dreams in Dublin, "she had a right to happiness. Frank would take her in his a...

• Word Count: 1345
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... and to self. Eveline is a conservative girl who grew up in Dublin with her brothers who eventually moved out and her abusive alcoholic father. She ends up meeting a man named Frank who is a traveler that intends to take Eveline with him when he leaves Dublin. Eveline fantasizes and gleams with excitement as she thinks about what life would be like leaving ... her home town in which she has personally overstayed her welcome. However, when she finally gets to the dock about to take off with Frank, Eveline falls numb. She becomes paralyzed because she is about to take off and leave her dut...

• Word Count: 1621
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate